Das Boot
On land they dreamed of being heroes. Beneath the sea they pray to be survivors.
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted.The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
- Director
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Action
- Worldwide
- $85M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
21 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Das Boot actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
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Why We Recommend It
Why It's Ranked
Das Boot appears in 1 Nutevio collection. Here is the argument behind each placement.
- Top 250 Movies of All Time Ranked #241
Placed at #241 by the Nutevio ranking model. An editor's written case is on the way.
The record
Awards
0 wins · 6 nominations
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 6 nominations
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Cinematography
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Director
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Film Editing
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Sound Editing
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Das Boot returned 6.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $14M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $85M
- Release date
- Sep 17, 1981
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- German, English
- Country
- Germany
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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